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Nov 02, 2021
All hail Scuba Dude.
1 of 1 found this helpful This is one of the best values in modern watchmaking... Particularly now that Seiko is pricing all of their lines upward, you can still count on the old Vostok brand to continue making watches "for the people" even if the iron curtain has fallen. Now they just make watches "for all the people" which i can get behind. Some common complaints you here about Amphibias range from the standard half-hearted complaints about "quality control" to outright horror at the bi-directional bezel. Some folks hate that the keyless works (crown and stem etc) is designed the way it is. I find, having owned mechanical watches since i was a boy, that every watch and watchmaker has their quirks and those of the Vostok production lines are charming to me. I actually like the loose feel of the crown, having broken stems on two of my watches in the past. In an antique piece, this is one of those things that you can just have a hard time replacing, and it makes me feel good knowing that a smart shock or even my own grip won't damage the stem. It's my understanding that the watch was, in fact, designed this way to protect the keyless works against damage in the field. The bezel I'm more indifferent towards.. People expecting a 120 click uni-directional dive bezel will be disappointed. This is a case of "would you rather spend millions engineering a pen that can write in space, or just use a pencil." The americans did the former, the soviets the latter, and that philosophy is apparent here. At depth, the plastic of the crystal (it is an hesalite crystal) flexes and pushes against the bezel, tightening it down and making it very hard to move out of alignment. And remember, this is vintage technology. One doesn't compare this watch to a modern Omega Seamaster.. to use a car analogy, this isn't a modern Hummer, it's more like the Volkswagen Thing.. You either like that or not, but there it is. I like, about this watch, that the date snaps over pretty much all at once right around midnight. It takes my 7s26 equipped (and even my day/date quartz) watches a few hours to recover, which annoys me as those are my peak working hours. Some other things: The bracelet on this watch is nicer than on my other one (This is my second Amphibia) which is more of a typical oyster style but with folded links and no end links. The links are solid enough, but the end links are hollow. Still, i replaced it with a zulu.. The lume is also not great. Both of my Vostoks run about 10-15 seconds fast (per day). None of this is terrible though. All in all it's a terrific little watch that punches (for me at least) well above the money i paid for it.